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Centre for Addiction and Mental HealthA public hospital providing direct patient care for people with mental health and addiction problems. The Centre is also a research facility, an education and training institute and a community-based organization providing health promotion and prevention services across the province of Ontario, Canada.

The Center for Communications, Health and the Environment (CECHE)A private, non-profit American institution based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1990, CECHE’s mission is to assist under-served communities in the United States and developing nations worldwide by conceptualizing, catalyzing, and supporting programs to improve health and alleviate the adverse health affects of environmental pollution.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and YouthA center at Georgetown University (USA)that monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of youth.

Cochrane CollaborationAn international organization that aims to help people make well informed decisions about health care by preparing, maintaining and ensuring the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care interventions. Cochrane reviews (the principal output of the Collaboration) are published electronically in successive issues of The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The abstracts of the reviews of the Drugs and Alcohol Group can be found here.

DrugScope UKDrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs. It aims to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk by providing quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug taking, undertake research at local, national and international levels, advise on policy-making, encourage informed debate and speak for its member organisations working on the ground.

ETOH DatabaseThe most comprehensive online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. ETOH is updated monthly and contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature.

FORUT - Campaign for Development and SolidarityFORUT (Campaign for Development and Solidarity) has been involved in development assistance in Africa and Asia. Its mission is to fight poverty and to mobilise for a world with more justice and solidarity.

International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE)ISAJE is the first society for addiction journal editors and was formally constituted in 2001 as a non-profit organisation. ISAJE holds major meetings every year providing an opportunity to discuss shared problems. ISAJE also develops guidelines on ethics and provides support for the developing world and non-English language journals and education and training of authors and editorial staff

The Mentor FoundationAn international, independent, not for profit, non-governmental organisation that focuses on the prevention of drug misuse among young people, and the promotion of their health and well-being.

Prevline - Prevention OnlineA U.S national clearinghouse for drug and alcohol information with extensive information on the issues tailored for different audiences.

PubMedA service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960s and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is one of the European Union’s decentralised agencies. Established in 1993 and based in Lisbon, it is the central source of comprehensive information on drugs and drug addiction in Europe.

Substance Abuse Librarians and Information SpecialistsSALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists) is an international association of individuals and organizations with special interests in the exchange and dissemination of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) information.

Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other DrugsSupported by a partnership that draws on the strengths of a number of collaborating organizations in Europe, the Americas, Austral-Asia, and Africa with a documents database on policy and practice information published across the Web.